Driving Old Vehicles is bad for the environment?
From http://wheels.ca/article/33033 :
| Longer-lasting cars hurt climate: Report
THE CANADIAN PRESS Nov 21, 2007 Vehicles are lasting dramatically longer than even a few years ago, with 43 per cent of passenger cars built 15 years ago still on the road, and this is bad news for the environment, industry analyst Dennis DesRosiers reports. … “Older vehicles are the least fuel-efficient and highest-polluting users of the road,” he points out. “A current model year vehicle emits 98 per cent less toxins into the air than a vehicle bought 15 years ago.” “I think it rather foolish for any politician to target the already highly fuel-efficient and very environmentally friendly new vehicles. There are currently close to seven million vehicles on the road in Canada that are over 10 years old, or about 40 per cent of all light vehicles registered. But no politician has the backbone to target getting these old smokers off the road.“ |
(FYI, DesRosiers’ income seems to come from the pockets of car manufacturers, who of course want to sell more new cars.)
Anyway, what he’s basically saying is that the 7 million “old” vehicles should be sent to the junk yard. I agree that the emissions from older vehicles are an issue, but is trashing the cars and making even more waste really more environmentally friendly than other options?
Speaking Green, doesn’t the manufacturing process cause more harm to the environment as opposed to a maintained old car with low emissions?
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